Item
Still Image
Moving into Poston
- Title
- Moving into Poston
- Description
- As Japanese Americans began to leave the incarceration camp in Poston, Arizona, the buildings began to be repurposed by both tribal members who originally lived on the land and relocated Hopi and Navajo residents. On September 1, 1945, 16 families‚ a total of 78 people, moved into the barracks at Poston. Here, residents pose outside of their new homes, drafty buildings made from tar paper, never intended to be permanent. Photographer Hikaru Iwasaki was the only Japanese American to work in the WRA and document the incarceration camps as a full-time staff photographer. Photograph by Hikaru Iwasaki, September 1945. National Archives 539890.
- Type
- Image
- Identifier
- AIAA-A.43
- Subject
- Othering
- Rights Holder
- National Archives
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Creator
- Hikaru Iwasaki
- Date
- Sep-45
- Spatial Coverage
- Poston War Relocation Center